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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. -- Tony Blair
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. -- Aneurin Bevan
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. -- Arthur Scargill
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me. -- Billy Bragg
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. -- Arthur Scargill
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. -- Greg Knight
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life -- Roy Jenkins
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. -- Johann Lamont
I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron. -- David Blunkett
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. -- Nick Clegg
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. -- Johann Lamont
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris -- Tony Benn
The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with. -- Harriet Harman
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either. -- Jo Grimond
When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997. -- Noreena Hertz
The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did. -- Colleen McCullough
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. -- Dora Russell
There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society. -- Colm Keaveney
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist. -- C. L. R. James
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians. -- Patricia Hewitt
I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support. -- Tony Benn
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. -- Arthur Scargill
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party -- Andrew Lansley
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised. -- Ron Davies
Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership? -- Michael Foot
I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things -- Tony Benn
As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction. -- Kevin Rudd
I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn. -- Ron Davies
People can say what they want in the Labour Party. -- Michael Foot
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. -- Harold Wilson
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. -- William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall. -- Winston Churchill
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party. -- Michael Foot
I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves. -- Edward Heath
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy. -- Karl Radek
I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter. -- Roy Hattersley
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland. -- Johann Lamont
The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners. -- Margaret Thatcher
I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members. -- Diane Abbott
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament -- Roy Hattersley
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. -- Malcolm Rifkind
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country. -- Jo Grimond
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. -- Evelyn Waugh
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad. -- Edward Snowden
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned. -- Roy Hattersley
I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality. -- Harriet Harman
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table. -- Gyles Brandreth
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility. -- John Richard Reid
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming. -- Johann Lamont
I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent. -- Tony Blair
I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part. -- Wendy Alexander
Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base. -- David Cunliffe
I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base. -- David Cunliffe
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party. -- David Cameron
Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism. -- Ephraim Mirvis
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully. -- Tony Blair
The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household. -- Edwina Currie
It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. -- Ruth Smeeth
That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today. -- Jonathan Sacks
All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning. -- George Galloway
It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past. -- Diane Abbott
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party. -- Aneurin Bevan
Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance. -- Ron Davies
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander. -- Harriet Harman
The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule. -- Johann Lamont
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech. -- Ron Davies
The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern. -- Ephraim Mirvis
I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party. -- Douglas Alexander
I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party. -- Neil Kinnock
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. -- Ed Balls
I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines. -- Norman Angell
It is absolutely clear that your continued leadership is putting the Labour Party's future in jeopardy and denying millions of people in our country who so desperately need representation by a Labour government the chance of that Labour government. -- Tessa Jowell
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised. -- Jon Weisman
Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can. -- Usain Bolt
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew. -- Joseph Muscat
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep... -- Ernest Gellner
At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening. -- Neil Kinnock
When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way. -- Bob Ainsworth
The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. -- John Pilger
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously -- Tony Benn
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction! -- Richard Posner
The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or (Labour Party leader) Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving NHS (National Health Service) ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain. -- David Cameron
We need people like me in the Labour party. -- Alan Johnson
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. -- Diane Abbott
What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. -- Tony Blair
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party. -- Vivienne Westwood
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. -- Karl Radek
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. -- Tony Blair
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. -- Shirley Williams
The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. -- Clive Anderson
It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off -- David Blunkett
The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England. -- Tony Benn
I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. -- John Lydon
We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives. -- Lucy Powell
We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition. -- Patricia Hewitt
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. -- Frank Dobson
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. -- Lucy Powell
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination. -- David Blunkett
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. -- Geoff Hoon
Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again. -- Harriet Harman
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain. -- Tony Blair
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. -- William Hague
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945. -- Tony Benn
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities -- Vince Cable
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. -- Enoch Powell
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. -- Tony Blair
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. -- George Osborne
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour. -- Johann Lamont
I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office. -- Jonathan Powell
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born -- George Galloway
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair. -- Robert Harris
When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats. -- Douglas Alexander
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. -- William Hague
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. -- Neil Kinnock
Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go. -- John le Carre
The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative -- Kenneth Clarke
We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. -- Lucy Powell
Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite. As leader it is my continued commitment to dedicate our party's activity to that goal. -- Wes Streeting
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country. -- Karl Radek

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